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Women and child development department deputy director Bharathi Banakar said the mutt had obtained permission from

the government to run the child adoption agency

With the arrest of Murugha mutt seer in a case of sexual abuse of minor children, the department of

women and child development has decided to shift a special child adoption agency set up on the

mutt premises

The adoption agency is run under Madilu scheme and it may be shifted to any other district since the

one on mutt premises was not “safe for children any longer.”

The district-level officer has already written to higher officials of the department about the need to

shift the agency. However, local people have urged the government to take control of all adoption

Novelist B L Venu told DH that the government must not escape from the responsibility of running

such agencies. When private organisations take control of such centres, there is no accountability at

all and nobody will monitor them. “Maintaining the agency is not a burden for the government which

provides crores of rupees to religious institutions. Henceforth, it must take control of all centres run by

private organisatitons or the mutts and safeguard interests of children,” he said.

Women and child development department deputy director Bharathi Banakar said the mutt had

obtained permission from the government to run the child adoption agency.